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    astronomers during the geocentrism vs heliocentrism disputes. In 1609, Johannes Kepler, an advocate of the heliocentric model, using his patron Tycho Brahe's...
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    cyclical movements of the Earth: eccentricity (100,000-year cycle – Johannes Kepler, 1609), axial tilt (41,000-year cycle – from 22.1° to 24.5°), and precession...
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    substantial series of more accurate observations. German natural philosopher Johannes Kepler at first worked to combine Copernican system with Platonic solids in...
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    Fixsternverzeichnis" [Attempting a restoration of Hipparchus' fixed-star catalog]. Astronomische Nachrichten (in German). 224 (2–3): 17–54. Bibcode:1925AN....224...17V...
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    falling object is proportional to the square of the time elapsed. 1609 – Johannes Kepler states his first two empirical laws of planetary motion, stating that...
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    was included in Tycho Brahe's star catalogue, republished in 1627 by Johannes Kepler as part of his Rudolphine Tables. This catalogue was based on Tycho...
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  • the Dutch city of Leiden, Lugdunum Batavorum DMP · 1133 1134 Kepler 1929 SA Johannes Kepler (1571–1630), astronomer DMP · 1134 1135 Colchis 1929 TA Colchis...
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  • Chile MPC · 3495 3496 Arieso 1977 RC name consists of acronyms of Astronomisches Rechen-Institut and the European Southern Observatory MPC · 3496 3497...
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  • scientists such as Johannes Kepler, Simon Marius, and Michael Maestlin were aware of the Fabricius' early sunspot work, and indeed Kepler repeatedly referred...
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    astronomical Easter between 1700 and 1776, based on the Rudolphine Tables of Johannes Kepler, which were in turn based on astronomical positions of the Sun and...
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